Stock sheet for postage stamps



Inventor Aug. 2, 1949.

O. E. MCCASKILL STOCK SHEET FOR POSTAGE STAMPS Filed NOV. 20, 1945lllllll! lllllllnlull. Irllllllllll.

Patented Aug. 2, 17949 UNITED STATES I l -viQlFFf-YI'CE Y p `aiutate; ni

STOCK SHEET Foa Postr-AoEsTAMPs Oscar E..McCaskill, Los AngelesfCalf.'Application November 2051945; SerialiNdZQif'lO Y 3' Claims. (o1.Lio-1159) This.invention-.relates'to a-stock sheet Vfor holdfor holding.stamps which are vto be forwarded through *the .-mailfrom a dealer to acollector, or from one collector to another.

One object of the invention is to provide a A,stock sheet wherein stripsare mounted along or across a main sheet andjrmly `secured at their endsto the main sheet, the strips having loose upper portions ysothat stampsmay be insertedfunder the strips andgend portionsfof the vkstrips beingso formed thatfaps formed'by the yloose upper portions of -the stripsmayzbe-turned ldownwardly for insertion ,of .stamps without danger ofthestrips beingtorn. f

Another object of the invention is? A o provide za 'stamp-holding sheetof such vrformation that fwhilefstamps may be very'easily thrust underthe strips and also easily removed, they will be firmly held and'prevented from accidentally slipping out of place. Another-object of theinven- Aztionsis to v:provide a sheet-carrying strips -of they improvedviforrnation, :the :sheet being :either adapted to be yplaced in a lingcabinet or in an envelope for mailing and the strips being so arrangedthat a large'number of stamps may be held by the sheet.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure l is a view looking atthe front face of the improved stampholding sheet,

Figure 2 is a sectional View taken along the line 2 2 of Figure 1,

Figure 3 is a view showing a sheet adapted to he mounted in a loose-leafbinder and equipped with stamp-holding strips of the improved formation,

Figure 4 is a view looking at the front face of a portion of a sheetprovided with strips of a slightly rnodiiied formation,

Figure 5 is a sectional view taken along the line 5-5 of Figure 1,

Figure 6 is a view looking at the front face of a stamp-holding sheetprovided with strips of a modied construction, and

. 2 Kboard pieceIZ; openings E3? being punched through the.-main-gsheet. and the .reinforcing piece 2 in orderi'that {the sheetmaybemounted in-,a looseleafv binder of `Vconventional .form-ation,.Strips l3 ywhichare formedof strongrpaperextend across Y,the lfrontface of the main sheet and thesestrips are gluedito the Tmainsheet-along V.theirflower edge.portions i but Yhave .their upper portionsyfree so that upper portions ofthe strips V.will form flaps vunder-r-Which stamps. are to -be thrust .when applying @they stamps jto thesheet. End -portions of-Y. the stripsare-.heldtolthe main sheet bybinding tapes 4 and the strips :3 carried bya sheet, which isintendedtobeplacedin a lingcabinet -0r enclosed linf anenvelope yfor,mailing, extend .the -full length .or 4jwidth .of vthe.. sheet and .the,binding tapes A `arei'oldedso that they extend about edgeportions. ofthe `Asheet and firmly adhere to the sheet and, alsoto end portionsofthe strips. Thisis clearly. showndnFiguresl and 5. l f The strips 3carriedby asheet-intended to.be mounted xin a looseeleaf binder aresecured at one end by a binding tape 4 which -.is-.foldedto straddle theedge portion of thesheet-'and-over- I,lap lend ,portions of the strips.3, but the other tondi-portions of. the-strips terminate, in spacedrelation'to the reinforcing strip Vv2 and aresecured by a binding tape 4adhering to end portions of the strips and having its ends terminateflush with upper and lower edgesof the main sheet or folded across theseedges of the main sheet and adhering to the rear face of the sheet for ashort distance. The strips 3 have their end portions cut to providereduced ear portions 5 and also provide top marginal flaps 6 which areof appreciably less length than the lower portions of the strips 3 andare disposed in inwardly spaced relation to the binding tapes 4. Itshould also be noted that while the marginal iiaps 6 overlap adjacentstrips 3 mounted on the main card, the reduced ear portions of thestrips 3 have their upper edges 1 in edge to edge contact with loweredges of the strips under which they are mounted and thus form spacinggages. The iiaps may have straight cut end edges 8 and arcuate indentedportions 9 extend between lower ends of the straight cut edges 8 andinner ends of the upper edges 1 of the ears 5 or the flaps may havediagonally extending end edges i0 as shown in Figure 4. In either case,the flaps will have their end edges 8 or l0 spaced from the bindingstrips and a flap may be flexed outwardly and stamps thrust under it orstamps withdrawn from under a flap without likelihood of the aps beingtorn or the strips 3 themselves torn along inner edges of the bindingstrips. A stamp holding card so formed will be very convenient, since adealer may use it for holding his stock or for mailing stamps topurchasers, and a purchaser may use the card as a holder for the stampsreceived, or remove the stamps received from the card and put the cardaway for future use when mailing stamps to another collector with whomhe Wishes to exchange stamps.

Instead of forming the strips separate from each other and individuallyapplying them to the main sheet and securing them by binding strips, thestrips may be formed as shown in Figures 6 and 7. In this embodiment ofthe invention, the strips II and a border I2 are stamped from a singlesheet of paper corresponding in size to the main sheet. The strips IIare cut to provide flaps I3 corresponding to the flaps 6 and havingstraight cut end edges I4 merging into the arcuate indentations I of theend portions of the strips. The bordering portion I2 is gummed so thatit will adhere to the front face of the main sheet I and lowery edgeportions of the strips I I are also gummed so that they will adhere tothe main sheet. It will also be seen that the strips I I do not havetheir flaps I3 overlapping strips above them but have their upper, freeedges spaced downwardly from the lower edges of stripsabove them. Thestrips II are, however, of suiiicient depth to permit stamps to bethrust under them to such an extent that the stamps will be rmly heldwhen applied to l tice, if desired.

What is claimed is: 1. A stock sheet ,for postage stamps comprising abacking sheet and a plurality of parallel,

nap-forming strips extending transversely of and attached at theirbottom edges to said sheet to leave their top margins free as stampflaps, each strip having end ear portions iixed to said backing sheetand of less height than the vertical height of the strips and havingstop forming top edges for the next upper strip on the sheet and therebeing inverted arcuate edge indentations between the said top edges andthe adjacent vertical ends of the upper, iiap part of a relative stripwhereby to give increased service life to the strip ap.

2. In a postage stamp stock pocket device, a backing sheet and aplurality of strips xed on said sheet; each strip having a freeflap-forming top marginal portion forming a stamp pocket in front of thesheet and Whose ends are set back inwardly from the ends of the lowerportion of the strip so as to form projecting, end ears iixed to thesheet and which has top edges each reentrant adjacent to the inwardlyset ends of the ap portion, the vertical spacing of each strip beinggaged by the height of said ears.

3. The device of claim 2; the ears being covered in part by tapes whichleave the re-entrant edge part exposed to facilitate out-bending of theflap portion of the respective strip.

OSCAR E. MCCASKILL.

REFERENCES CITED The following. referenlces are of record in the iile ofthis patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 577,998 Wolsieffer Mar. 2, 18971,083,972 Wolsieffer Jan. 13, 1914 1,168,634 Hoffman Jan. 18, 19161,320,683 Goodhue Nov. 4, 1919 1,484,827 Heend Feb. 26, 1924 2,122,956Salley July 5, 1938 2,177,157 Smith Oct. 24, 1939 FOREIGN PATENTS NumberCountry Date 28,500 Norway Jan. 14, 1918 169,059 Switzerland July 16,1934

